Essential Shakespeare handbook by Leslie Dunton-Downer
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Book
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10
editions published
in
2004
in
English
and held by
1,376
libraries
worldwide
For each of Shakespeare's plays, provides an introduction, list of characters, plot summary, notes on reading the play, and notes on seeing the play. Also includes an introduction to Shakespeare and his time; a genre overview for each of the four types of play--history, comedy, tragedy, and romance; and overviews of selected non-dramatic poems.
The English is coming! : how one language is sweeping the world by Leslie Dunton-Downer
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Book
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3
editions published
between
2010
and
2011
in
English
and held by
621
libraries
worldwide
"Through the fascinating stories of thirty English words used and understood in nearly all corners of the globe, The English Is Coming! takes readers on an eye-opening journey across culture and commerce, war and peace, and time and space. These mini-histories shed new light on everyday words: the strange turns of fate by which their meanings evolved and their new roles as the building blocks of the first language ever to forge a global community. Exploring such familiar terms as shampoo (from a Hindi word for scalp and body hygiene long practiced in India); robot (coined by Czech painter Josef Capek for his brother Karel's 1921 play about man-made creatures); credit (rooted in a prehistoric phrase of sacred significance: "to put heart into"); and dozens of others, Dunton-Downer reveals with clarity and humor how these linguistic artifacts embody the resilience, appeal, adoptability, and wild inclusiveness that English, through a series of historical accidents, gained on its road to worldwide reach. These words explain not only how English has managed to link our distant and often disparate pasts but also how it is propelling humankind to a future that we can, for the first time, talk about and shape in a language that now belongs to all of us: Global English" --Cover, p. 2.
Opera by Alan Riding
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Book
)
10
editions published
between
2006
and
2008
in
3
languages
and held by
467
libraries
worldwide
Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams.
Ligeia by Augusta Read Thomas
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Book
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2
editions published
in
1994
in
English
and held by
23
libraries
worldwide
Belladonna : an opera in two acts by Bernard Rands
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Book
)
3
editions published
between
1998
and
1999
in
English
and held by
12
libraries
worldwide
Essential Shakespeare handbook(
Book
)
3
editions published
between
2004
and
2006
in
English and Japanese
and held by
11
libraries
worldwide
Oper(
Book
)
1
edition published
in
2007
in
German
and held by
9
libraries
worldwide
EWC - Opera by Alan Riding
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Book
)
1
edition published
in
2006
in
English
and held by
2
libraries
worldwide
The complete visual guidebook to the great operas, their composers and performance history.
Opera : [composers, synopses, singers, performances(
Book
)
1
edition published
in
2006
in
English
and held by
2
libraries
worldwide
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